Posted on 10/11/2014 11:54:08 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Western donor nations that have given so much money to Palestinian causes are expressing hesitancy about funding the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip because they fear another war may be, if not just around the corner, then certainly not that far off. It’s a reasonable worry, but given the hostility in the international community toward Israel, the concerns are, as usual, being voiced in the wrong context.
These nations ponied up huge sums for rebuilding after Hamas terrorism from Gaza provoked Israeli military operations in 2009 and 2012. That money evaporated in explosions this year when Hamas launched another conflict by kidnapping and murdering three Israeli teens and firing rockets and mortars into Israel.
The 50-day war that Hamas caused destroyed or damaged more than 60,000 homes and 5,000 businesses as well as claiming more than 2,000 Palestinian lives, many of them cruelly and illegally wasted as human shields by Hamas.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas seeks $4 billion or more from the donor nations at a conference convening in Cairo Sunday. According to the U.N.-funded news service IRIN, whatever nice words are said at the conference, the donor nations may not be willing to ask their taxpayers to provide such a large sum “in the absence of real commitments from both Israel and the main Palestinian factions.”
Note the nauseating moral equivalence between the terrorists who started the war and the nation forced to defend its citizens. As I’ve said before, no Palestinian violence, no Israeli violence.
As bad as this moral equivalence is, worst is the attitude prevalent in many European capitals that Israel is the obstacle to peace. The European Union threatens to impose sanctions against Israel unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes progress toward a two-state solution and stops construction in the disputed territories of the West Bank, reports the Times of Israel. What about the responsibility of the Palestinians to at last help accomplish peace?
Unfortunately President Barack Obama and the State Department also place inordinate emphasis on building in Israeli communities as a barrier to peace. Most construction occurs in areas that would be part of Israel under any two-state solution.
The actual obstacle to peace remains the hostility to Israel of the Arab world, including from the Palestinians. Hamas remains committed to unending war against the Jewish state and still has an arsenal of thousands of rockets and mortars in Gaza. Getting those weapons out of the strip and imposing measures to prevent future rearming would be the best guarantee against another Gaza conflict. Again, no Palestinian attacks, no Israeli reprisal.
A couple of recent episodes show it’s not Israel blocking a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After Israel killed the two Hamas operatives who murdered the three Israeli teens, the murderers were idolized by Palestinian Authority media as martyrs, according to the monitoring organization Palestinian Media Watch. The authority’s official TV said the two were killed “at 2 a.m., according to Zionist hatred time.”
Even more illuminating was the report by journalist Khaled Abu Toamed of the Gatestone Institute about a Saudi MBC-TV telecast of a Mideast map that included Israel. Protests broke out across the Arab world and MBC apologized for not labeling the area Palestine. Toamed calls this “yet another reminder that many Arabs still have not come to terms with Israel’s existence — and apparently are not interested in coming to terms with it.”
Email: shuntley.cst@gmail.com
Once one understands that the rest is easy to figure out...particularly for those who have even a passing familiarity with a work called "Mein Kempf".
Since when do donor nations "ask their taxpayers"... anything?
When they’re afraid to simply take it.
The western communists feel that if the israelies would only just die and get out of the way of the greater Arabic caliphate that there would suddenly be peace. But the unending war against the israelies will only shift to be the unending war all the way up to Spain and France. They’ll find some grievance.
This is the world war and the israelies are the control rod.
We should give them all or part of a state, such as New Mexico, Mississippi or Pennsylvania.
Maybe around election time they pretend to be afraid to simply take the taxpayers’ money and spend it on anything they feel like. But mostly, government hacks everywhere, in every government on earth, including ours (more and more as the constitution is eroded, especially ours) just spend Other People’s Money without a care in the world.
So yeah, 4 billion to a bunch of mentally retarded savages to build rockets and suicide vests... why not?
“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”
—Margaret Thatcher
Israel is not at fault—at all.
How about Nebraska?
Not a lot of interest in this topic, it seems.
That’s not good.
Probably pick up a bit when/if SJackson pings the article.
..................
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.